Monthly Archives: June 2011
Iran Arming Iraqi Groups Attacking U.S. Troops, Gates Says
Iran is furnishing new, more deadly weapons to Shiite Muslim militias targeting U.S. troops in Iraq as part of a pattern of renewed attempts to exert influence in the region, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
Iran facing new U.S. sanctions
By Joby Warrick, Thursday, June 30
The Obama administration on Thursday accused Iran of assisting Syria’s government in its brutal crackdown on demonstrators, listing names of Iranian security officials that the White House says helped...
Pak-Iran project’s gas not meant for domestic consumers: Secretary
Secretary Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources Muhammad Ejaz Chaudhry said on Thursday domestic consumers would not be able to afford Pak-Iran project’s gas. Briefing National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources...
Third Balochi Resistance: The 1970s
The nationalist Balochis took to rudimentary politics during Ayubs practice of Basic Democracy in Pakistan. They struck a chord of unity with the Pakhtuns in NWFP and formed a National Awami Party (NAP) upon the dissolution of the One Unit...
BALOCH INSURGENCIES 1948-1977
Wahe Watan O Hushkien Dar The fatherland even barren is worth anything
Balochi saying
People with a warlike spirit, wearing exalted plumes, like the cocks comb, on their turbans.
Firdausi in Shahnama
Settlers — caught in crossfire
QUETTA: “They keep changing the menu,” a hotel attendant in Quetta sums up the scale and scope of the target killing of settlers in Balochistan. “Almost all non-Baloch are on their hit-list.”
Pakistan – A Rogue and Failed State
By Nelson Lewis, Bahrain [ Published Date: June 19, 2011 ]
A few years before India achieving independence, the leaders of the All India Muslim League (founded in 1906) got hooked to the idea of creating a separate land for Muslims. Muhammad...
Balochistan sliding into chaos: HRCP
A new report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has termed the situation in Balochistan as “extremely precarious”, and has called out the government for complacency in the issues of the province.
Baloch leader gunned down by unidentified men
Quetta, Unidentified armed men shot dead a Baloch political leader and injured five other persons in Pakistan”s restive Balochistan province today, police said. Mir Abdul Khaliq Mehrwani, the former secretary of the Baloch National...
MPA gets 10-year jail term in kidnap-for-ransom case
KARACHI: A special anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday awarded a 10-year jail sentence to Balochistan’s MPA Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind, his son and their two accomplices in a kidnap-for-ransom case.
Ahmar Mustikan – Human Rights Day
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Ahmar Mustikhan, International Coordinator for International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Speaks on Challenges to Human Rights to Baloch People
Journalist asks is Baloch blood thinner than that of a Pakistani in world eyes
A young journalist from Balochistan has made some pertinent observations about the double standards of the Pakistani media when it comes to journalist lives in Occupied Balochistan and has expressed his anguish at the international apathy...
Balochistan – The other side of the story
by Moign Khawaja
“I believe there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those doing the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want...
Government of Balochistan, Pakistan
Government of Balochistan (Balochi: بلوچستان سرکار) is based in the largest province of Pakistan in Quetta. The head of the province is the Governor, who is nominated by the President of Pakistan. While the head of the Government...
Munawwar asks if there is a govt in Balochistan
QUETTA: The killing of Chechen nationals, recovery of mutilated bodies, target killings and kidnapping for ransom show there is no government in Balochistan, Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawwar Hassan said at a press conference at the Bugti...